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Above is the map of how far Queendom Website has traveled,
nice for MacSoph and me, but doubly nice because it shows that needlework is indeed alive and well right round the world.
My World of Needlework
Hiatus from Stitching
In the midst of house repairs and a new roof so chaos laps in front of me. As a result I am on hiatus from everything to do with a needle. It is all buried under layers of plastic dropcloths.
A Reminder
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INSTRUCTIONS.
May 14, 2025
We are enduring the travails of a mess at our house,
a new roof. It will in the end be a good thing but in
the meantime it is terrible, just awful, if I do say so.
It willl be a while, but eventually life willl return to
normal and the first thing I plan to do is revisit my plan to sell my Jane Austen Needle Book.
This is the 250th anniversary of the birth of Jane Austen and I wish to celebrate itl
Give me a chance to write instructions and ship my sale and I will bring back my Pride and Prejudice Needle Book to honor Jane Austen. This year is the 250th anniversary of her birth. She was born December 16, 1775.
I also have whitework and needlework tools from Jane Austen's Regency era and soon as I have time I will post photos of some of them. They are, if I do say so, stunning tools!
There is a lovely issue of Piecework Magazine, this time all about Regency Needlework from the era of and associated with Jane Austen. WELL worth collecting the issue!
I plan to post some whitework samples and some needlework tool photos that Jane Austen might have used, I just need to finish mailing my recent sale first.
More needlework tools Jane might have used. Here are two beautifully carved needle books, one with pansies, the other with roses. Inside of each are flannel pages. I'm guessing both are French, about 210 years old.
This morning two beautifully carved silkwinders, again from the age of Jane Austen, one with the initials SP, the second with two birds, and again so fragile that it is difficult to believe they are still here after 200+ years.
Deadlines for repairs to kits ended
April 22, 2025.
So far nothing more,
not until our house is back in order.
Three Pincushions this morning, all round disks, each decorated with little black circles/dots which we collectors call Madras work. Likely East India Co export from India.
If you look carefully at the center one you will see that it is dated 1820 in tiny dots.
May 14, 2025
I'm trying to look on the good side, that this too shall end, but right now life is buried under plastic dropcloths to protect stuff from the incessant dust and debris and workmen pound away on our roof.
Dust, debris and unbelievable pounding that sounds like the world is going to drop through our roof at any minute.
Oh my. I am on hiatus from all needlework, it is buried deep under plastic dropcloths everywhere.
On the happy side I predicted this and set aside some drawing tablets and pencils. New designs? Maybe.
